The lie that protects the rich from tax rises

Better late than never, Rachel Reeves finally followed the lead of the SNP Government in Holyrood and announced that the heinous two child cap on benefits will finally be abolished from May next year, cue a load of hypocritical Labour MPs trying to pretend that they supported this measure all along…

Hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right

Racists complain that migrants don’t want to learn English and integrate, but when migrants do want to learn English and integrate, racists mount a protest outside the school where English language lessons are being given to the mothers of some of the pupils, insisting that they are “protecting our kids” from…

Capitulation and Quiet Piggy

As the COP ends in another abject failure the wider geopolitical world seems to also falter into complete madness. A ‘peace plan’ emerged last week that was at first purported to be an American proposal but was quickly revealed to be really a Russian wishlist, originally written in Russia, by Russians. Marco Rubio, the Secretary […] Source

Is fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste  na Gàidhlig anns a’ chiste!

Is fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste na Gàidhlig anns a’ chiste! “Broken Gaelic is better than Gaelic in a coffin!” When people hear I speak Scottish Gàidhlig, they usually want to listen to how it sounds; its throaty ch sound found in the word loch that English mostly steers clear of, like clearing a whisper from your throat rather than a […] Source

The Scottish media’s covid double standards

Did Nicola Sturgeon get everything right during the Covid pandemic when she headed a devolved government limited powers at its disposal and she was faced with an anti-independence Scottish media that screamed she was politicising the pandemic in order to further the cause of independence whenever she sought to diverge from…